Improvement in caekiage-perch



PATENTED 73438l JAN211868- WILLIAM H. COOPER AND GEORGE GREGORY, OF NEWI-IAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORS TO LAWRENCE, BRADLEY, AND PARDEE, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 73,438, dated January 21', 1868.

IMEROVEMENT IN GvARRIAGE-PERGH.

TO ALL WI-IOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. COOPER and Grenen GREGORY, of New Haven, in the 'county Ot New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Carriage-Perch; and we do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference .marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, .and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, aside view of the forward carriage and body, and in Figure 2- an under side view ofthe same.

This invention .relates more particularly to an improvement in that class of carriages, the body or" which is constructed so that the forward wheels turn under, and the body sets upon "c-springsgl and consists in the attachment of the perch by a joint to the carriage or body forward ofthe wheel-house. l

Heretofore the perch has extended from the springs of the rear carriage, and bcenattacheii` to the body in the rear of the wheel-house; therefore the depression of the body tends to turn down the springs of the rear carriage, and greatly strain both the body and the springs; to avoid which is the object of this invention.

To enable others to construct our impro-vement, we will describe the same as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

A is thc body, constructed in the usual forni, with a wheel-house, B, and set upon the front carriage C in the usual manner; thc rear of the carriage set upon C or other springs on the rear carriage, also in the usual manner. D, the perch, attached to the rear carringcin the usual manner, extends forward and properly curved, is hinged at a to a bar, E, the said bar being fixed firmly to thc body, or, if preferred, the hinge itself, without the bar, may he attached directly to the body, thc bnr serving simply as a means of securing the hinge. Thus the rear carriage is connected directly to the front carriage through the connection a, of the perch, with the body forward of the Wheel-house, andV therefore relieves the springs or rear carriage and the body from al1 the strain Or diiiculty arising from thc connection of the perch.

Havingvthus fully described our invention, what wc claim as new :ind useful, und desire to secure by Letters Patent, isy The attachment of the perch D tothe body forward oi' the whcel-house, in the manner substantially ns herein set forth.

WM. II. COOPER, GEO. GREGORY.

Witnesses:

A. JTIBBITS, JOHN H. SHUMWAY. 

